The First Anzacs

Often we think we know our country’s history, particularly if we are only one degree of separation from those who made that history. Many people of my age had grandfathers who fought in World War One. We have some of their stories, though often highly sanitized if they were told to us as children. I would say that, until recently, I had a general grasp of the war’s chronology and Australia’s part in it but no deep understanding of what it was like for those who lived through that war, both a...